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After expeditiously restoring confidence in the banks by forcing them to undergo severe stress tests, they gave households time to repair their balance sheets.
The task for economic policy was to compensate for the resulting shortfall in private demand until households eventually recovered.
Households were assumed to be ready to consume, although, in Spain and elsewhere, many were over-indebted.
As a result, Europe emerged from the recession with too many zombie banks, wounded households, and struggling companies.
But although financial markets may be prepared, can we say the same of individuals, households, and small businesses?
China’s rebalancing will enable it to absorb its surplus savings, which will be put to work building a social safety net and boosting Chinese households’ wherewithal.
Falling oil prices may provide cheaper energy for manufacturers and households, but they hurt energy exporters and their spending.
High taxation supports comprehensive national health care, education, pensions, and other social services, resulting in low levels of poverty and a relatively narrow income gap between the richest and poorest households.
In the US, the poorest 20% of households receive just 5% of total income, putting their income at around one-fourth of the national average.
In the Nordic countries, by contrast, the poorest 20% of households receive nearly 10% of total income, putting them at roughly one-half of the national average.
More important, declining labor-force participation may indicate that more young people are staying in school, for example, or that more women from poor households are entering the middle class.
Hats off, first, to Mexico for pioneering the idea of “conditional cash transfers” to poor households.
These transfers enable and encourage those households to invest in their children’s health, nutrition, and schooling.
And I have provided an internally coherent theory whereby secular stagnation arises naturally as a consequence of low expectations on the part of households and firms about the future value of their assets.
With the economy in free fall and uncertainty pervasive, many households and firms simply stop paying taxes.
But this only accelerates the run on the banks, as households and firms realize that no solid assets are backing their deposits.
These governments are not only appropriating resources from domestic households and businesses, subtracting from their consumption and investment; given that major developed countries issue international-reserve currencies, they are also collecting seigniorage from developing countries’ growing foreign-exchange reserves.
The bottom quarter of US households have received almost no increase in real (inflation-adjusted) income for the last 25 years.
Some 330 million urban households either live in substandard housing, or pay more for their housing than they can afford.
From 2009 to 2014, the state grew by 544,000 households but added only 467,000 homes.
Subsidies, low-interest loans, and rent control may bring relief to households struggling with affordability, but these measures will not solve the housing shortage.
It took only five years for 50 million US households to begin surfing the Internet, whereas it took 38 years for a similar number to gain access to radios.
Higher-income groups thrive while lower-income households and minority groups are consistently left behind.
Many companies and households would go bankrupt.
With corporations sitting on cash, governments trying to rein in deficits by cutting expenditure and raising taxes, and households spending less on residential construction, demand is weak and uncertainty is high.
Indeed, households have already endured some hardship, brought about by the consumption-tax hike.
American households are saving again.
But once American households rebuild their retirement accounts, they may return to their profligate ways.
They need time to build a social safety net capable of encouraging Chinese households to reduce their precautionary saving.
It is expected that, by 2020, more than half of African households – almost 130 million – will have discretionary income to spend (or save), up from 85 million today.
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